pavement pizza

Noun

pavement pizza (countable and uncountable, plural pavement pizzas)

1. (Australia, UK, humorous, slang) A patch of vomit on the pavement, road or ground.
   • I think I'm about to deliver a pavement pizza.
   • Being drunk is one thing, but creating a pavement pizza on a train is clearly overstepping the mark.2004, Andrew Holmes, Matthew Reeves, Pains on Trains: A Commuter′s Guide to the 50 Most Irritating Travel Companions, page 207

   Synonyms:

   barf, bait, boke, boot, chunder, honk, puke, purging, ralph, sick

2. (humorous, slang) The badly damaged bodily remains of a person who has jumped or fallen from a great height.
   • She would have been pavement pizza if she hadn′t been strapped in. As it was, she was hanging from the shoulder strap like a parachutist who hit a tree.1998, Eileen Dreyer, Brain Dead, page 287
   • He′d even heard of there having been a jumper once. Ended up as pavement-pizza, but astoundingly still alive, now simply existing in a semi-vegetable state, a crippled slobbering mess, physically and mentally incapacitated for the remainder of his sorry life.2008, Christopher Nosnibor, The Plagiarist, page 107

   Synonyms:

   road pizza

3. (US, humorous, slang) Roadkill.
   • That's so the little critters can go there and eat their little hearts out instead of getting them smashed out on the road as a part of a pavement pizza.1995, Margaret Lawrence, “Cousin Cassie′s Cookin′”, in Annette J. Bruce, J. Stephen Brooks, editors, Sandspun: Florida Tales by Florida Tellers, page 43
   • Had I been in an SUV, the kid would have been pavement pizza.2004 September 13, Editorial Opinion, Philadelphia Daily News (PA)

   Synonyms:

   road pizza